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Thursday, December 4, 2025
TopicWealth

Topic: wealth

Pandemic could erase more global wealth than financial crisis

Volatile markets and the economic fallout from the virus could wipe out as much as $16 trillion of global wealth this year and hinder growth for the next five years.

Here’s what you need to count among India’s 1%, but it won’t make you rich in US, China

The top 1% covers a wide span, from professionals to billionaires with more wealth than many nations. But the yardstick varies greatly with where you live.

Indian elites holding back wealth tied in slums. And here’s what Modi govt can do

Elites view encroachers as disruptors of property rights system, and oppose regularisation. But that’s what India needs to free up capital held in slums.

Missing capital: India’s trillions-dollar wealth is chained in slums. Time to unlock it

The slums and shanties represent a huge drain on our wealth for what really requires nothing more than a clear-headed policy towards urban property.

These new Indian billionaires are racing ahead as the old ones are fading away

Number of billionaires in India more than doubled to 119 between 2013 & 2018 & the country will lead global growth in ultrahigh net worth individuals.

Between 2014 & 2019 polls, all parliamentarians got richer but BJP MPs especially so

If JMM’s Champai Soren managed to double his wealth between 2014 and 2019, BJP’s Arjun Munda quadrupled his riches during the same period.

India needs big, wealthy industries, not more reports pitting poor against rich

It is fashionable to be derisive of big industries and industrialists but what is overlooked is that they sustain smaller businesses, generate jobs.

Oxfam inequality study: Skewed parameters to assess wealth or disbalanced economic growth?

In its annual report, Oxfam said that India’s wealthiest got wealthier by 39 per cent as opposed to the bottom half of the population...

Inequality reports like Oxfam’s end up hurting India’s poor with their poor methodology

Oxfam considers it “obscene” that the poor now borrow more, and have seen an increase in their liabilities.

Funerals are becoming the final opportunity to flaunt wealth

Businessmen and billionaires are often aggressively competitive in life, and funerals become one last extravagant display of wealth. 

On Camera

My grandmother saved her children in Bhopal gas tragedy—and sacrificed her own life

‘Mother kept pouring water in our eyes whenever the burning became unbearable. She pushed our bodies deep into the blanket, making sure not a single part was exposed,’ my father said.

India’s Russian oil imports are showing up in cryptic new places. The crude map stands redrawn

December oil imports from Russia may drop nearly 50%, but Indian buyers already shifting to non-designated Russian entities and opaque trading channels to keep Russian oil flowing.

India to commission new squadron of submarine-hunting Romeo choppers in Goa later this month

The helicopters produced by Lockheed Martin are known as ‘submarine hunters’. India ordered 24 of these aircraft in 2020 to replace the Sea King helicopters. 15 have been delivered till date.

Gaali cricket: Bavuma stands tall, India’s Test ego cut to size

The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.